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Utila Tours

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Service:
  • Accommodation for Divers
  • Equipment Gear Rentals
  • Gear Equipment Servicing
  • Underwater Photography/Video
  • Underwater Publications Prints
  • Vacation Holiday Scuba Diving
  • Wreck Diving
Company description Laguna Beach Resort is an exclusive diving, fishing and beach. This elegantly designed property is set on a palm fringed peninsula dividing a tranquil mangrove lagoon and the warm Caribbean Sea. This quaint resort provides much privacy with their bungalow style accommodations nestled on the lagoons edge, for a perfect view of Utila’s tropical sunset. The beautiful ocean view restaurant and bar, built from natural woods, continues the resort`s rustic theme that compliments the island ambiance Utila is famous for. Utila sits on top of the second largest fringing coral reef in the world making Laguna Beach a diver`s paradise.
The outer banks are home to dolphin and more than the occasional whale shark.
Laguna Beach Resort consists of 13 bungalow style accommodations each set over a tranquil mangrove lagoon accommodating a total of 36 guests.
Laguna Beach’s ocean side restaurant offers 3 buffet style meals daily. This beautifully designed building has a center bar and upstairs entertainment room with a pool table and satellite T.V. Relax with a cocktail after dinner on the restaurants deck perfect for stargazing. Visit the Resort’s gift shop to check out local Honduran goods and hand made souvenirs available for purchase. The shop also offers a variety of Laguna Beach tee shirts and other resort wear. The dive operation consists of an on-site dive shop with gear storage area, fresh water shower and separate rinse tanks for cameras and gear. Laguna Beach Resort also boasts 3 Newton custom dive boats (34` X 14` and larger), equipped with tank racks, platform and unique slant ladder. Visit the Resort’s fishing hut to set up charters on one of LBR’s boats available for fishing, snorkeling, whale-shark excursions and trips to the outer Cays.
The resort offers:
*Laundry Service
*Fishing
*Dive instruction, including Nitrox
*Bicycle Rentals
*Snorkeling
*Sattelite phone service
*Island Tours
*Kayaking
*Internet communication
We invite you to explore our tropical paradise... where nature abounds.
Location description: Utila offers a variety of diving in over 100 dive sites around the island. Following are some of Laguna Beach Resort’s favorites beginning with its spectacular shore dive.
*LAGUNA BEACH SHORE DIVE
The dive begins with a wall dive with drops from 15` to 100`, featuring bluebell tunicates, stingrays, and an abundance of juveniles due to the proximity to the mangrove lagoon. Following the tongue & groove coral formations towards the shallows takes you past abundant elkhorn & pillar coral. Particularly during night dives expect many invertebrates, including lobster, shrimp and squid, as well as occasional sightings of both moray and conga eels. Continue into shallows towards the beach to find urchins & conch hiding in the turtle grass. Exit onto the beach just a short 10 yards from the restaurant.
*BLACK CORAL WALL:
Just west of Laguna Beach Resort mooring buoy, you will find the most vertical wall of the south side. Heading west from the mooring, the wall drops from fifteen to eighty feet. Abundant bushy black coral and deep water sea fans start in as shallow as twenty feet. Keep an eye out to the blue for passing spotted eagle rays. At night with a flashlight, the wall’s true colors come to life. Look for basket stars in the vase sponges, octopus in the shallows, as well as large eye toadfish.
*SILVER GARDENS:
The top of the reef at fifteen to twenty feet offers sand patches and channels for exploring at safety stop depth. A large school of horse eye jacks, as well as numerous juvenile reef fishes abound. The wall here drops to eighty feet and offers plenty of nooks and crannies for giant green moray eels, large groupers and dog snapper. Look closely for arrow blennies and slender filefish. Another classic night dive.
*LITTLE BIGHT:
Creating a break in the reef that runs parallel to shore, a wide sand patch gradually slopes from the beach to well past one hundred feet. A favorite shallow dive for looking at the little things in the sand; sea horses, sailfin blennies, juvenile green razorfish, upside down jelly fish and garden eels are among the many treasures to be found. Coral rich walls flank either side of the sand patch.
*JACK NEAL COVE:
This is another sweet sandy spot, in which it’s almost always possible to find one or more sea horses, pipefish, pike blennies, corkscrew anemones with cleaning shrimp, and peacock flounders, if you look closely in the sand. You may also encounter a curious school of reef squid here in the shallows. The coral walls on either side of the sand patch offer perfect habitat for parrotfish, trumpetfish and spotted drums. Keep an eye out for occasional hawksbill sea turtles.
*STINGRAY POINT:
The last dive site on the south side before the Utila Cays, a sandy slope drops from the mooring buoy at twenty feet to over one hundred feet, and is flanked by a steep wall to the west. In the sand look for southern stingrays, and off the wall, keep an eye out on the blue for passing spotted eagle rays.

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Contact information:

Phone: 337-893-0013
Fax: 337-893-5024
Street Address:
1004 Jacqulyn St.
Abbeville
Louisiana
United States
70510
Spoken language(s): English,Spanish
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT - 6 Mexico, Monterrey, Guadalajara
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